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months. Aside from these, the main matter to be mentioned in this con- 

 cluding section of this report is, as in last year's report, the need of an ad- 

 equate building for the Department. Its new quarters in the Bond Building 

 are better than the old, but are still unsatisfactory in location, especially on 

 account of their remoteness from the Library of Congress. The greater part 

 of our historical work is done in that library, and most of our staff, except 

 the Director and those occupied with clerical work, spend most of their time 

 in it and in going to it and coming from it. Now that the administrative 

 offices of the Institution have been removed to the new building on Sixteenth 

 Street, the one merit which our present location possessed has disappeared. 

 On this vitally important matter of a better location, I beg leave to refer to 

 ;my report of a year ago, in which the need is more fully set forth. 



